By Scott Jaschik. A few years back, many seeking to reform college admissions focused on early decision, under which applicants pledge to enroll if admitted, and both apply and find out if they got in months before the normal schedule. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday became the site of the third-most-deadly mass shooting ever to occur on a college campus. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. For a second consecutive year, the number of students receiving their first college credential fell, even as the number of students earning a second or third undergraduate credential continued to increase. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. For the last seven years, Long Beach, Calif., has worked to develop a path from the earliest levels of public school to college by establishing a partnership among its city government, state university, community college and K-12 systems. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Uproar over a controversial and racially charged art project at the State University of New York at Buffalo spread well beyond campus over the weekend -- with people responding to both the project and the artist's explanation of it. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. This last year has seen an increasing number of colleges go test optional, meaning that applicants decide for themselves whether to submit SAT or ACT scores. Many of these colleges report increases in application numbers, particularly from minority applicants. Read more...